Union Carbide Calidria Customer File on Armstrong Cork, South Gate, CA: 1978 Supply and Specification Correspondence and 1981 Call Report

Eight-page exhibit on Union Carbide's sales of Calidria asbestos to Armstrong Cork's South Gate, California floor tile plant. It opens with a 1981 customer call report and is followed by March 1978 letters and forms about a supply commitment, purchase specification #105146 and a Material Safety Data Sheet request. The 1981 call report says Armstrong had nearly finished switching to an asbestos-free formulation.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Union Carbide Metals Division customer call report, T. P. Norris, Armstrong Cork, South Gate, CA, 11/24/81; Armstrong moving to asbestos-free formulation
• Page 2: Letter, Robert E. Byrne, Jr. to E. R. Evans, Jr., March 21, 1978, enclosing completed specification #105146 form and two copies of the Calidria Material Safety Data Sheet
• Page 3: Supplier's information form for purchase specification, storage and safety (Calidria pelletized grade, King City, CA), partly garbled in OCR
• Page 4: Letter, E. R. Evans, Jr. (Armstrong) to John L. Myers, March 17, 1978, requesting physical and chemical properties for SG #103 pellets; copy to T. P. Norris
• Page 5: Handwritten note on a 'From The Desk Of Harry Rhodes' pad, with 'CALIDRIA ASBESTOS' printed at the foot; handwriting not legible in OCR
• Page 6: Armstrong Cork Form 43854, 'Request for Supplier's Information on Hazardous Raw Material,' spec. no. 105146, dated 3-13-78, completed for Calidria Standard Grade #103
• Page 7: Letter, Armstrong Cork South Gate plant to T. P. Norris, March 14, 1978, requesting a Material Safety Data Sheet for each hazardous raw material
• Page 8: Letter, John L. Myers to Armstrong Cork, March 13, 1978, confirming intent to supply 100% of the asbestos requirements at its California floor tile plant (about 150 tons per month)

People and organizations

From T. P. Norris (Salesman, Western Region); Robert E. Byrne, Jr. (Assistant Marketing Manager); John L. Myers (Marketing Manager); E. R. Evans, Jr. (Chief Chemist, Armstrong Cork Company) to E. R. Evans, Jr. (Armstrong Cork Company, South Gate, CA); John L. Myers (Marketing Manager, Mining & Metals Division, Union Carbide); T. P. Norris (Sales Manager, Western Region, Union Carbide).

• Robert E. Byrne, Jr. (author)
• E. R. Evans, Jr. (author, recipient)
• John L. Myers (author, recipient)
• Tom P. Norris (author, recipient)
• Metals Division (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Armstrong Cork Company (named)
• Atlas Asbestos Company (Coalinga, California) (named)
• Mining and Metals Division (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Floor Tile, Sheet Flooring, and Black Mastic · Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document Union Carbide 601 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 8 pages.